Arizona weekly citizen., 1887-09-24
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 The editorial staff now tskas the most important part of the news of the day ID hand and writes one or more leaders, without which n well edited paper would be Q stew without gravy. TEeTe IS an immense difference diffrreCce between leaders and leaders; many ore written compAri.ively few are read, and paper whose leader IS always read and ever snxiousiy looked for and reprinted by other papers IS able to exercise very great influence.
 I will not heIe go into details about another laborlous more CT less seil im posed tssS of a large newspaper othce : everybody knows that when any body IS m want of some particular information which m very many cases he might hnd 5y going 70 the frs. eDclyclopedia. he writes to his newspaper for It. They will know of course" They will give yOu any information, if you enclose a stamp, bearing on the heighth of PopOcstspetI or the number of fselers found upon a phyIloxera. I only hope tbat the grat- itude which the newspapers deserve IS accorded them ID like degree as their tasks thus imposed upon them causes them the trouble of carrying on an i'm .mense gratuitous correspondence.
 The contents of newspaper conslss not only of reading matter but also of advertisements, which serve the double purpose of bringing before the pu0ile 8 series of information where it can ind a variety of acco modations and supply to It's wants, and also enable the manage ment of u paper to enlarge its reading matter. For be 1t understood that the running" of large or small daily paper involves sn expenditure much greater than could be even approximately GOV cred by the amount received from cub scriptiou alone. Our largest deilies must have an income of over one hun dred thOusanI d. liars for ads, alone be- before they can reckon on one cent gain on the enterprise ID one year. The. procuring of these ads. again sets III motion q small army of employees. Each paper has its agents who visit the advertising customers ard obtain their orders from 6ey Eo day; several clerks are b1sy iill midnight re ceiving ads. brought to the newspaper office, and the telephone IS kept n play continually transmitting orders from from distant parts of the city.
 After the editorial staff and managing department has thus already been al work half day, preparing the--mEtter or "cOpy' for the paper. the type settlers and printers assemble, to whom pertains She task to set the written material up in moulded letters, or type. lt IS hardly necessary ;c give description oi this part Of the manual labor. The foreman distributes tO the typos the written sheets, which ary marked with running numbers, and the work goes OF. The ''deviT (generally the last apprentics) quickly tskes a proof sheet which js cor recied and returned to the typo, who makes the necessary chsrges Tn bis work. All being ready the different parts are handed to the foreman, who assemblies them upon the forn 8, each of which fills one page of tie paper. One form after another is new placed upon an iron table with rollers Gnd rOl- led into the stereotype room, wh6fe by means ot steam power, nCEt lmpres- slou Of the form Is made upon paste board and from this mould one or several (acc0rdlng to the number Cf printing presses al heDd) metal plates are made and placed into the printing presses. The printing of to-day Is dcEe alnCst with lightning rRpidity.
 But even before the printing, many hands have been busy with the nsces- sGry preparations. Above sll, 1t is reces- sary that the paper should be sufficient ly and equally dampened before 1t IS laid upOn the press, and the work of sprinkling several tons of paper which are needed for one issue, is no small mat Ger, nOtTIthsta ndinR ths appropriate machinery in use of our days. The UriDt ting press, whose mechanism IS very complicated. must be carefully exemin- ed, clesned and oiled; the printing Ink rauss ElsO receive constant attention as yell gs the cylinders by means of which the forms are linked.
 A soon Rs the first shee.1, printed and folded, fall from the press, they gre brought into the mailing room where another machine provides them with ready wrappers. Half SD hour after the foreman has put the las. touch so his forms, the papers are rolling towards the different railroad depots. And now ap. pesr the carriers. IG large book they find fl shy new names have been added Co their respective districts. or If any nave been crossed out; quickly the, gather up theIr qusntum and run through heat, through cold. through SHOW, rain and wind. to place the paper before the subscribers door.
 As to | quantity of material Of all kinds absorbed 6y the newspaper press of the United States to-day, confess ! am unable to give even Gn approximate estimate. Suffice n to know that daily of ihe size of tjo New York Herald. with circulation of fifty thou sand. requires fifteen hundred tons of paper ID the course Of one year. States affords an honest aud in most cases. comfortable livi2c. directly or in- directly, to over 60O.OO0 individuals, reckoning editors, reporters. printers, mschinists, devils, csrriere, ype found- | CTS. and paper manufacturers and thelr accessories.